The first words of a child mark, among other things, the onset of verbal communication. It is normal that when a child It is too late to speak parents are anxious and wondering when the delay is in normal context.
“The ability to communicate is found in all forms of mammals and non -animals. In humans, communication begins at the first time of birth, between the baby and the mother, through tactile and acoustic stimulus. But this process in humans evolves by the development of speech and speech.
From his first months of life, man produces anarchic sounds, where about six months of life is found to have organized production of syllables “BA” or “TA”. The term is used to describe this developmental stage of speech “Baby”. About twelve months of life are observed the first conscious words “mom”, “dad”, while in the 24 months of life the named “explosion of the vocabulary».
It is a rapid increase in expressive vocabulary and enrichment of speech morphology (creating phrases and simple sentences). The maturation of man’s speech is performed throughout the first six years of his life, “says Stamatis Sourvinos, Vice -President of the Association of Speech Therapists – Speaker of Greece, inspirer and founder of ASLT Program and explains:
“Contrary to the aforementioned expected development of speech and speech, but also with complementary knowledge that the development milestones of speech and speech are plus – except six months, there are cases that diverge significantly of the maturity of the maturity and then it is important that parents consult. Of course, it is noted that the absence of the dying mountain is not necessarily alarming, as not all children are followed.
But if the child up to 18 months of life has not presented any verbal productionUnlike not even 24 months, it has not been spent on a speech, then it is advisable to have a first-child-old control, which will do a complete audit. Then the speech therapist is visited to assess his difficulties.
Correspondingly, a child in the 3 years of his life, when he is now expected to get involved in a closed type discussion using some words and this is not the case, is crucial to evaluate a speech therapist. As well as when phonological or articular simplifications are found in speech from 3-6 years where, based on formal development, the place and way of producing the phonemes should be gradually conquered. “
ASLT Program (Aquatic Speech and Language Therapy Program) is the first program Speech Therapeutic Intervention in Water worldwide, with research data. The program concerns, for the most part, children with Autistic spectrum disorder and by extension Developmental disorders. Based on a published study, the results indicate a spectacular difference in terms of the effectiveness of the ASLT program both in increasing perceptual and expressive vocabulary and in the improvement of basic communication skills, compared to classical speech therapeutic intervention programs that take place in a room.
“The exploitation of the liquid element and its properties such as hydrostatic pressure, lifting, heat, etc., create a spiritual uplift as well as helping to reduce sensory, increased attention and concentration time and other decisive sectors. In addition, as is easily understood, the aquatic environment is, for the overwhelming proportion of children, an extremely supportive factor, with a wealth of activities that make the intervention a pleasant process and result in faster skills. In addition, the adaptation and creation of exclusive materials adapted to the liquid element proved to contribute to the greater and faster effectiveness of the intervention.
Our clinical experience shows the fact that ASLT can also have equally beneficial effects on children who do not belong to the umbrella of autistic spectrum disorders, but have difficulty in linguistic conquest and communication skills, ”concludes Mr Sourvinos.